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has caused the Debian Bug report #632608,
regarding ITP: libdata-uuid-perl -- Perl module for generating UUIDs
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org>
* Package name : libdata-uuid-perl
Version : 1.217
Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes <rjbs[at]cpan.org>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-UUID/
* License : BSD-like
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Perl module for generating UUIDs
Data::UUID provides a framework for generating v3 UUIDs (Universally Unique
Identifiers, also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers). A UUID is 128
bits long, and is guaranteed to be different from all other UUIDs/GUIDs
generated until 3400 CE.
.
The algorithm for UUID generation, used by this extension, is described in
the Internet Draft "UUIDs and GUIDs" by Paul J. Leach and Rich Salz. (See RFC
4122.) It provides reasonably efficient and reliable framework for generating
UUIDs and supports fairly high allocation rates -- 10 million per second per
machine -- and therefore is suitable for identifying both extremely
short-lived and very persistent objects on a given system as well as across
the network.
(end of description)
libossp-uuid-perl already provides a version of Data::UUID, but it differs from
the real Data::UUID in subtle ways. Since the ITP for that package [0] was
filed, Data::UUID upstream added a license file (Nov 2008).
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/283493
License file:
This distribution contains code derived from the sample UUID implementation in
RFC 4122, which contains the following clause.
/*
** Copyright (c) 1990- 1993, 1996 Open Software Foundation, Inc.
** Copyright (c) 1989 by Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, Ca. &
** Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass.
** Copyright (c) 1998 Microsoft.
** To anyone who acknowledges that this file is provided "AS IS"
** without any express or implied warranty: permission to use, copy,
** modify, and distribute this file for any purpose is hereby
** granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notices and
** this notice appears in all source code copies, and that none of
** the names of Open Software Foundation, Inc., Hewlett-Packard
** Company, Microsoft, or Digital Equipment Corporation be used in
** advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
** without specific, written prior permission. Neither Open Software
** Foundation, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft, nor Digital
** Equipment Corporation makes any representations about the
** suitability of this software for any purpose.
*/
The same terms apply to this code.
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I no longer intend to package Data::UUID.
After filing the ITP, I found a symlink vulnerability which is quite
difficult (for me) to fix - it turns out that Data::UUID does not work
well on multi-user systems, because the first user will grab the
global state files in /tmp:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69277
Instead, I filed and fixed the bug in ossp-uuid that was stopping
Data::GUID compiling:
http://bugs.debian.org/635607
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Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org>
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